Julien
Gets Acting Lessons at the Bar
Brigette
and Julien sit at a crowded loud bar
Brigette:
Remind me your name
Julien:
Julien
Brigette:
yes yes yes, Julien... and that guy, he's Julien too, right?
Julien:
Right
Brigette:
And you guys are from Michigan, right
Julien:
Yeah yeah!
Brigette:
Haha that's awesome, well it's awesome to see you guys
Julien:
Yeah for sure
Brigette:
dude, last time I met you, you were doing some music video, right?
Julien:
Oh yeah yeah, we did the whole thing, a whole video and stuff
Brigette:
I remember talking to you about acting, I mean how was it, how did it
go? How'd you feel about it?
Julien:
Well acting is kinda crazy
Brigette:
No shit man, acting is insane
Julien:
And it was hard trying to figure out if I was doing something as a
character in the video or being myself or what
Brigette:
Oh for sure, that's actually a super hard thing to figure out, like a
weird balance to comprehend
Julien:
Totally
Brigette:
I was once in this show actually, where I wanted to play this
character how I had figured out this character to be... and like it
was great, it was funny, I thought I was doing a really good job, and
my director-who understands comedy better than just about any one
I've ever encountered- stops me after rehearsal one day and says...
Brigette, you have to stop acting
Julien:
Haha what, are you serious?
Brigette:
And I was like what do you mean? And he said, what you're doing....
yeah, I get it, it's funny, okay... but when you're just sitting in
my office bitching about something, you're so much more funny. So
just stop acting. Be yourself. And it was super hard for me because I
felt like I had no character. So a friend of mine who was the
assistant director gave me this brilliant piece of advice, because I
thought I was just on stage doing nothing, not acting... she told me
to give myself a physical tick... something that noone would ever
notice, but by doing it, I felt transported into the character. And I
could do everything the way I had been doing it, but by having this
tick, I felt like I wasn't just myself, but my character
Julien:
Man, that's nuts
Brigette:
For sure, but that's the stuff you gotta do as an actor because you
just get in your head all the time and it's just over and ove-
Julien:
Do a scene
Brigette:
What
Julien:
Do a scene
Brigette:
Oh, I, don't what...
Julien:
You show up home and your husband bought a brand new red ferrari
Beat
Brigette:
What, what, um, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?!? Why is that here? That's
not..we can't afford that! What the fuck is that? It's kinda
beautiful tho.. I was just thinking the other day about what it would
mean to have a red sports car but... that's not, honey! HONEY! What
the fuck is that? That's a ferrari, isn't it? That's, how could, you
uh,
Julien:
Ya know honey, sometimes ya just gotta take care of business
Brigette:
What?
Julien:
I just do what I do... I thought you'd like it
Brigette:
Well I do like it, it's gorgeous, I just don't see how you went about
just making that decision... I'm not even mad, not mad at all
actually... I just want, I just don't know
Julien:
Ya know, sometimes I'm gonna be taking care of you
Brigette:
Why do you spoil me
Julien:
Why not baby
Brigette:
I can't believe that's ours!
Beat
Brigette:
And that's a scene...
Julien:
that was fun!
Brigette:
Yeah, I know